This excerpt from Roughing It in the Bush was used for the 2011 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

The Pope wanted somewhere to crash at night, and he remembered my futon fondly from years past.

A series of trading cards for collectors who want to change the world.

What these tricks tell us, beneath Paul’s casual smile, is to beware: he is a force to be reckoned with.

Once out of storage and onto the lawn, the clutter looked different.

From If Language, a poetry collection published by BookThug in 2005. Each poem in the book is an anagram of an epigraph written by Steve McCaffery that contains 525 letters. Gregory Betts’ essay “Trench Poetry” appeared in Geist No. 54.

This video of Pierre Berton teaching the basics of joint-rolling originally aired on the Rick Mercer Report (CBC Television) on February 21, 2005.

Challenging the perception of "Indian" art.

Patsy's daughter Sarah met a woman who had an alter ego named Edna.

From "The Benefits of Being Burned," a chapter in Canada's Boreal Forest, by J. David Henry (Smithsonian Natural History Series).

The sidewalks of Yonge Street were wooden then. I can picture horse buns steaming in the snow . . .

A few thousand years ago, John Terpstra’s giants doffed their coats and splashed around in newly-melted glacier water. Join them for a stanza or two.

With his pyjama pants billowing like tandem windsocks, he cries into the broken sky: Sweet lord, if only you will have me, I will be true this time!